CHAPTER 3 Hedging Strategies Using Futures Tutorial 3 - Practice Questions Problem 3.1. Under what circumstances are (a) a short hedge and (b) a long hedge appropriate? A short hedge is appropriate when a company owns an asset and expects to sell that asset in the future. It can also be used when the company does not currently own the asset but expects to do so at some time in the future. A long hedge is appropriate when a company knows it will have to purchase an asset in the future. It
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History of Derivatives: A Few Milestones EFTA Seminar on Regulation of Derivatives Markets‚ Zurich‚ 3 May 2012 Steve Kummer (research and redaction) and Christian Pauletto (concept and speech delivery) Policy and Trade in Services Division State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA Introduction This presentation contains a selection of records and events that constitute a part of the history of derivatives. It relates how derivatives date back
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Financial Economics 92 (2009) 443–469 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Financial Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jfec Seasoned equity offerings: Quality of accounting information and expected flotation costs$ Gemma Lee a‚ Ronald W. Masulis b‚Ã a b W. Paul Stillman School of Business‚ Seton Hall University‚ South Orange‚ NJ 07079‚ USA Owen Graduate School of Management‚ Vanderbilt University‚ Nashville‚ TN 37203‚ USA
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FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Module 1 – Introduction to financial risk management 1. What are the major categories of risk? Please provide examples. (Topic heading: Main categories of risk controls SG 1.32) Seven categories of risk are outlined. These are summarised in the table below: Type of risk Definition Example Liquidity The risk of not being able to pay back what you owe due to the inability to convert assets into cash quickly‚ without materially
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Futures I. Introduction to Derivatives Prof. Domenico Cuoco Term 5‚ 2013 What is a Derivative? Basic Types of Derivatives The Market for Derivatives Outline 1 What is a Derivative? 2 Basic Types of Derivatives 3 The Market for Derivatives Options & Futures‚ Prof. Domenico Cuoco‚ 2013 I. Introduction to Derivatives 2 What is a Derivative? Basic Types of Derivatives The Market for Derivatives What is a Derivative? Derivatives and Contingent Claims
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assignment Derivatives A derivative is a term that refers to a wide variety of financial instruments or “contract whose value is derived from the performance of underlying market factors‚ such as market securities‚ interest rates‚ currency exchange rates and commodity‚ credit and equity prices. Derivatives generally involve an agreement between two parties to exchange a standard quantity of an asset or cash flow at a predetermined price and at a specified date in the future. The derivatives markets
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MARKETS An Educational Initiative by SEBI Curriculum NISM-Series-VIII: Equity Derivatives Certification Examination VIII: I. Basics of Derivatives A. Basics of derivatives B. Evolution of derivatives m market C. Indian derivatives Market erivatives D. Market participants E. Types of derivatives market erivatives markets F. Significance of derivatives erivatives G. Various risk faced by the participants in derivatives II. Understanding Index A. Introduction to Index B. Significance and
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Do you Know? • What is Derivative Market? • What is Hedging? • What is OTC? • What is Exotic Option? Parisian Option Passport option Rainbow option Russian Option Shout Option Spread Option Parisian Option The pay off a standard European option only depends on the price of the underlying asset at the maturity date Passport option A Passport option grants its holder the right to engage in short/long trading strategy of his own choice A passport is a new contingent
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Several investment banks gathered to discuss the possibility of raising enough private money to recapitalize Barings before the Tokyo market reopened on Monday morning. This attempt failed because of the size of Barings’s positions in Japenese derivatives contracts‚ many of them still open and liable to incur still bigger losses. None of the banks wanted to take on these contracts without a large fee or a guarantee from the Bank of England that it would cover these losses. The Bank of England decided
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many accounting issues that were affected by Section 404‚ but one that pertains to Ford in particular. SFAS 133‚ titled Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities‚ was the main subject of Ford’s restatements. Ford put out a press release related to this matter in 2006‚ which claimed “Ford Motor Company uses transactions involving derivatives‚ including swaps‚ forwards and options‚ to reduce economic risk and volatility in a disciplined and defensive manner” (Ford‚ 2006). Simply
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